What a surprise! Today was the first day that there has been any hint that Summer is leaving. This was the thermometer reading at 2 o'clock in the afternoon! A miracle! Usually this is what it is at sunrise.
I am enjoying having a yard! And now the weather is cooperating and I can spend more than a few minutes out in it, instead of watching it from the comfort of the AC. Chris isn't thrilled about the fact that now we have a lawn to mow, but he is a good sport. Even when he has to trim the edges of the lawn with scissors... we definitely need to get a weed-whacker one of these days! But it is so fun to plant things, to watch them grow.
Noelle and John left us a really cute little garden... The carrots are the only thing still growing, and they are little bitty things - I think partially because the ground is really hard. They get really fat at the top, but don't get very long. We've eaten lots of onions, and there was a cucumber and lettuce too. But the flowers are my favorite part.
Chris and I (OK, mostly me) spend a lot of time thinking and planning what we want to plant, and what we want to do outside. But for now, this is what we have:
The Crape Myrtle Tree (the one that's still alive of the 2) is blooming. I see it out the office window as I work away on the computer. I love the vivid color! Chris planted another tree, with white blooms, next to it. And we'll be replacing the dead tree with one that has lavender blossoms. I can't wait for a few years from now when all three trees will be covered with color!
3 comments:
That beautiful white flower just might be a white Iris. It sure looks like an Iris but the leaves on the plant seem narrower than I would have thought but I've never seen Iris growing.
Glad you got one tree planted. Looks good. Did the handle on one of our shovels break?? I hope no one got hurt. Glad you are finally getting some temperatures that you can enjoy from the out side for a while. Hurray for Fall!!
OH - thanks for the pictures. I all of a sudden miss that home. Especially the gerbera daisies. Those were my favorite too.
No, your shovels are fine. We had to buy another pointed one - the flat shovel was no help in the hard, hard ground. I couldn't even really pick up loose dirt with it! We wanted to both be working at it too.
The leaves look more like big grass than anything. It grows in a big clump, and I thought it was just a green plant, but then it started blooming. It's hard to tell in the picture, but the flowers are really small - about 1/3 or 1/2 the size of a regular iris.
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